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• • G—PHYSICS
  • G04—HOROLOGY
  • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
  • G04B27/00—Mechanical devices for setting the time indicating means
  • G04B27/02—Mechanical devices for setting the time indicating means by making use of the winding means
  • G04B27/026—Mechanical devices for setting the time indicating means by making use of the winding means for several clockworks or pairs of hands and/or supplementary functions
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G04—HOROLOGY
  • G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
  • G04F7/00—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means
  • G04F7/04—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means using a mechanical oscillator
  • G04F7/08—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph
  • G04F7/0804—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph with reset mechanisms
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G04—HOROLOGY
  • G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
  • G04F7/00—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means
  • G04F7/04—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means using a mechanical oscillator
  • G04F7/08—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph
  • G04F7/0842—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph with start-stop control mechanisms
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G04—HOROLOGY
  • G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
  • G04F7/00—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means
  • G04F7/04—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means using a mechanical oscillator
  • G04F7/08—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph
  • G04F7/0866—Special arrangements
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G04—HOROLOGY
  • G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
  • G04F7/00—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means
  • G04F7/04—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means using a mechanical oscillator
  • G04F7/08—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph
  • G04F7/0866—Special arrangements
  • G04F7/0871—Special arrangements with multiple chronograph functions, i.e. to count multiple running times

Definitions

• the invention relates to a mechanism for rapidly correcting a function display indicator for a movement or a timepiece, which movement or timepiece comprises, mounted directly or indirectly on a platen:
• said second control means being distinct from said first control means
• said indicator which comprises driving means for its training.
• the invention also relates to a timepiece comprising at least one such movement, and / or at least one such rapid correction mechanism.
• the invention relates to the field of watchmaking, and more particularly the field of timepieces with complications for displaying temporal quantities, such as calendar, moon phase, day, month, or the like.
• the invention relates to the field of chronographs equipped with such complications.
• temporal quantities such as the date, the moon phases, the tides, the day, the month
• temporal magnitudes require corrections by catch-up, either in the case of a calendar to catch leap years, or in the case of moon phases to compensate for the slight difference between the lunar months and the approximation made to it. by the wheel.
• corrections may also be necessary in case of loss of references, for example following a shock on the timepiece.
• such a display comprises a disc or an integral ring respectively of a toothed wheel or a ring gear, or the like, and the movement of the timepiece causes a certain pitch this wheel or crown, to the required frequency.
• a similar arrangement is visible on the patent CH 4542 in the name of ABEGGLEN, and a first pusher is pivotable and cooperates with a lunar wheel direct drive tooth.
• a second pivoting plunger rotates a star held by a jumper, which cooperates with a tooth, constituted by a spring, that includes a first date change wheel, to rotate it and cause a return which in turn causes a second date change wheel comprising a spring reminding a pivoting peripheral bracket ratchet function, causing in turn a date wheel.
• Patent CH 672 223 in the name of CATENA and describes a tide indicator, as well as moon phases, by action of the rod, in the setting position, in the negative direction.
• the mechanism has two gears, one upper driven on the hours barrel, the other lower, mounted frictionally on the latter, and each driving a ring, a superior superimposed on a lower one, and with gear ratios different within each gear-ring pair, so that the lower ring rotates more slowly than the upper, by decoupling a friction on the hour wheel.
• Days of the upper ring, and an adequate combination of gear ratios allow to visualize the phases of the moon according to a sector of the lower ring delimited by the upper ring.
• the upper wheel always follows the hour hand, the lower wheel is held by a ratchet when the hour wheel rotates in the negative direction, and it is then possible to correct the moon phase by rotating the upper ring alone.
• EP 0 107 177 in the name of ERARD also describes a mechanism for viewing the moon phases, with synchronization by the crumb on the hour, and setting back on the timer.
• the hour wheel carries a moon gear causing a return driving a moon wheel.
• This moon gear itself carries a moon phase gear mounted crazy and friction by means of an annular friction spring, the moon phase gear causing a return which causes a coaxial moon phase wheel to the moon wheel.
• the moon phase gear cooperates with a pawl that allows the moon phase gear to pivot only if the hour wheel is rotated clockwise, and otherwise locks it, allowing the moon phase correction.
• This pivoting rocker can still occupy, when the control rod is pulled, an intermediate position where the star is released from the crown, and where the wheel is released from the timer, but cooperates with the spout of this rotary selector, in a first selection position corresponding to a clockwise pivoting of the rod, and in a second selection position corresponding to the anti-clockwise pivoting of the rod.
• the crown wheel drives the additional rocker in cooperation with the movable selector in a position where it has no effect on the pivoting rocker which is in its intermediate position, and wherein the crown wheel can mesh with a barrel ratchet for reassembling it; in the anti-clockwise direction of the rod, the crown wheel is unsheathed from the barrel ratchet, and the selector is in a selection position.
• the intermediate rocker and the movable selector When the rod is pulled from the winding position, the intermediate rocker and the movable selector occupy a position where the pin of the latter pushes the pivoting lever to its first stop position, meshing the wheel of the pivoting lever with the timer to set the time; when the rod is pulled from the selection position, the intermediate rocker and the movable selector occupy a position which allows the pivoting rocker to pivot towards its second abutment position under the action of its return spring, allowing the meshing of the star with the date crown.
• This efficient device requires a large number of flip-flops, and occupies space in an already very congested area.
• the patent EP 0 230 878 in the name of COMPLICATIONS SA presents a moon phase correction by the intermediate position of the rod, between the winding and setting positions.
• the sliding pinion meshes with a sliding device moving longitudinally in a light, between a position corresponding to a first direction of pivoting of the rod where it adjusts the date through a wheel bearing a star, and a another position corresponding to a second direction of opposite pivoting of the rod where it adjusts the moon phase, each time via a star.
• Patent EP 0 479 147 in the name of ETA SA describes, analogously, a moon phase corrector by the control rod. It also comprises a mobile sliding pinion in an arcuate light between drive positions of a date wheel or a moon phase wheel, with which it cooperates with an upper wheel, while a lower wheel of this player remains permanently meshed with a corrective wheel driven by the pivoting of the rod.
• the patent document CH 651 172 in the name of WIEDERRECHT presents a moon phase indicator mechanism, with correction by the crown.
• a 59-tooth moonwheel maintained by a jumper, cooperates with a pawl, which is pivotally and eccentrically mounted, movable between two abutting flats, on an intermediate wheel whose pivot is supported by a flat spring and which meshes with a pinion driven on the hour wheel.
• the ratchet once a day, drives the moon disc, when an actuating tooth that includes this pawl enters the teeth of the moon disk, and when a rear edge of the pawl abuts against a first flat of the moon.
• the setting of the lunar day time is carried out by alternating movements in front of and behind the winding crown of an amplitude corresponding to one or two hours around midday.
• the crown drives the needles counter-clockwise
• the intermediate wheel rotates clockwise
• the pawl driving tooth contacts the leading edge of a tooth of the moon disk
• the pawl tilts on its pivot until abutting by a front edge on another flat of the intermediate wheel.
• the driving tooth is then partially retracted, and, during the continuation of the pivoting of the intermediate wheel, the moon disk is driven in the opposite direction of a fifth tooth, before the pawl escapes the tooth of the disc of moon that he trained.
• the jumper then returns the moon disk to its previous position, so that the moon disk is driven stepwise in the clockwise direction to the desired position.
• the patent document EP 1 730 605 in the name of BLANCPAIN has a corrector device on horns, or under horns, in order to release the crown and the other pushers, including a pivoting lever provided with a seal.
• Patent document EP 1 939 699 A1 in the name of MONTRES BREGUET SA discloses a multifunctional coaxial corrector device for selecting or modifying display information by means of a single control member.
• a rotation of the control knob causes the movement of a rack and the positioning of the end of an arm of a rocker opposite a function corrector. Pressing a pushbutton makes it possible to activate and / or modify a selected function.
• the patent document CH 688 171 in the name of PATEK PHILIPPE proposes, as an alternative to the control command by the rod or push button, a control by the pivoting of a mobile telescope, which carries two rings integral in rotation, the one engaging a sky gear through a friction clutch wheel, the other engaging a moon gear through a friction moon clutch wheel, both clutch wheels being mounted friction on a drive shaft provided with a wheel meshing with a barrel.
• the moon gear has an internal toothing cooperating with an eccentric moon phase wheel.
• a base plate has two lights, in which are moving the shafts of two clutch release gears of the sky, and moon. Depending on the pivoting direction of the mobile bezel, only one of these gears at a time can mesh with the corresponding friction clutch wheel.
• the invention proposes to overcome the limitations of the prior art, by proposing a mechanism using a pre-existing control member on a timepiece, to make corrections of a magnitude related to time.
• the invention relates to a fast correction mechanism of a function display indicator for a movement or a timepiece, which movement or timepiece comprises, mounted directly or indirectly on a plate:
• said second control means being distinct from said first control means
• said device comprises a first mobile arranged to be driven by said first control means and occupying a disarming position when said first control means occupy their said disarmed position, or an arming position when said first control means occupy their said armed position
• said device comprises a second mobile arranged to be driven by said second control means when both said first mobile is in said arming position and said second control means are passing their said position disarmed at their said control position, to an actuating position to change the position of said indicator, and said second mobile being arranged to be held in a rest position in which it does not exert any action on said indicator which it is disengaged, when said first mobile is in its said disarming position or when said second control means are in their said disarmed position
• said second mobile comprises a second support surface arranged to cooperate, when said first mobile is in its said disarming position, supported with a first bearing surface that includes said first mobile under the action of elastic return means that comprises said device and which are in permanent support on a bearing surface of support that includes
• the invention also relates to a watch movement comprising, mounted directly or indirectly on a plate:
• said second control means being distinct from said first control means
• said first control means comprise a control rod of at least setting time, causing pivoting about a pivot, fixed directly or indirectly on said plate, a pull tab constituting said first mobile, and in that said disarmed position corresponds to an abutment position of said rod, which is arranged to occupy at least one other longitudinal control position.
• FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic and partial representation of a timepiece comprising a movement comprising first control means and second control means, as well as a function display indicator, and able to receive a mechanism. corrector according to the invention;
• FIG. 2 shows, schematically and partially, a timepiece comprising a movement and function display indicators, adapted to receive a corrector mechanism according to the invention
• FIG. 4 represents the mechanism of FIG. 3, in a disarmed inactive corrector position corresponding to the disarmed position of first control means and to the disarmed position of second control means;
• FIG. 6 represents the mechanism of FIG. 3, in a position armed with an active and pressed corrector corresponding to the position armed with first control means and the position armed with second control means;
• FIG. 7 represents the mechanism of FIG. 3, in an armed position, similar to FIG. 5, of an active but unpressed corrector corresponding to another position armed with first control means and to the disarmed position of second means of command.
• the invention relates to the field of watchmaking, and more particularly the field of timepieces with complications for displaying temporal quantities, such as calendar, moon phase, day, month, or the like, or for the display of physical quantities such as atmospheric pressure or others.
• the invention relates to a fast correction mechanism 1 of a function display indicator 20 for a movement 100 or a timepiece 1000.
• This movement 100 or timepiece 1000 conventionally comprises, mounted directly or indirectly on a plate 10:
• first control means 30 of at least one first function, linked to first display means, and which are capable of occupying a disarmed position 31, or at least one armed position of control 32:
• This first function can in particular, it consists in setting the timepiece of the timepiece, or in winding it by the crown.
• the first control means 30 comprise a rod 33 for controlling at least the time setting, and the disarmed position 31 corresponds to an abutment position T1 of the rod 33.
• the second control means 40 comprise a push button 43 for controlling the on / off mechanism or the reset mechanism concerned.
• This push-button 43 is generally designed to cause, when it is activated by the push action of a user, a direct latch 44, which is biased towards the disarmed rest position 41 of the push-button 43, by means of recall. elastic.
• the rapid correction mechanism 1 according to the invention comprises such a direct flip-flop 44 biased, by elastic return means associated with it, to the disarmed rest position. 41 of the pushbutton 43 of the chronograph.
• This direct flip-flop 44 makes it possible not to dedicate the push-button 43 to a single function.
• Its shape is preferably in the form of a flag, with a wing folded square with respect to a rocking plane, this wing at right angle here comprises a first surface receiving the pulse of the push button 43, and an opposite surface, said control support 45, whose function is explained below.
• the square folding of this wing provides flexibility over the entire height of the pusher in the box.
• This third function can take different kinds: preferably, and as described below, it can be the display of a moon phase, or a date. This third function can also relate to a display of tide time, day of the week, month, time zone, or the setting of an alarm clock, a ringtone, an account mechanism to countdown, change of schedule, or counting of bridges in a sports game, or any usual complication in watchmaking, or other.
• the mechanism 1 of the invention is designed to be able to perform a correction, or an adjustment, of an indicator of any type, by one or more pulses, which make it possible to correct a reference or a state.
• the invention can also be used for the correction or adjustment of other physical quantities than those related to time, for example for a reference barometric pressure on an altimeter mechanism, the adjustment of a heading or an azimuth, the calculation of an arithmetic quantity by addition or subtraction of a value, a magnetic declination correction, the setting of a threshold of radioactivity, or other.
• the mechanism 1 comprises a first mobile 50, which is arranged to be driven by the first control means 30.
• This first mobile 50 occupies either a disarming position 51 as visible in Figure 4 when the first control means 30 occupy their disarmed position 31, ie an arming position 52 when the first control means 30 occupy their armed position 32 as visible in FIGS. 5 and 6.
• the mechanism 1 further comprises a second mobile 60, which is arranged to be driven by the second control means 40, but only when both the first mobile 50 is in its arming position 52 such that 5 and 6, and the second control means 40 move from their disarmed position 41 to their control position 42, as visible in FIG. 6. Its driving by the second control means 40 then becomes actuating position to change the position of the indicator 20.
• This second mobile 60 is arranged to be maintained in a rest position in which it has no effect on the indicator 20 which it is then disengaged, when the first mobile 50 is in its disarming position 51 as visible on the Figure 4 where the second mobile 60 occupies a rest position disarmed and inactive. Or the second mobile 60 is held in another rest position in which it has no effect on the indicator 20 from which it is disengaged, when the second control means 40 are in their disarmed position 41 as visible on the Figures 4 and 5 and wherein the second mobile 60 occupies a rest position armed and inactive.
• the transition from the disarmed and inactive rest position to the armed and inactive rest position is done by combining a translation and a pivoting, as will be explained below.
• the second mobile 60 comprises a second bearing surface 63, which is arranged to cooperate, when the first mobile 50 is in its disarming position 51, resting with a first bearing surface 53 that includes the first mobile 50.
• This cooperation is under the action of elastic return means 70, which includes the mechanism 1.
• These elastic return means 70 are in permanent abutment on a bearing rest surface 71, that includes the second mobile 60. And these elastic return means 70 are arranged to push the second mobile 60 towards the first mobile 50, and for subjecting the second mobile 60 to a pivoting torque tending to move it away from the indicator 20 and to bring it closer to an actuator of the second control means 40, in particular the push-button 43 and the direct lever 44.
• This direct flip-flop 44 which comprises, as the case may be, the mechanism 1 or the second control means 40, is arranged to cause in its movement, during a driving action on the part of a user, in particular by pushing on a push button 43, the second mobile 60 via a control support surface 45 that includes the second mobile 60, and to constitute, in its disarmed rest position 41, a stop limiting the pivoting stroke second mobile 60.
• the second mobile 60 comprises second guide means 64, which are arranged to cooperate with first guide means 65 which are complementary to them, and which are arranged to be fixed directly or indirectly on the plate 10.
• the second guide means 64 are constituted in the form of a slot 82 arranged to cooperate with an ankle 81 constituting the first means of complementary guide 65 or the second guide means 64.
• This pin 81 constitutes an instantaneous pivot axis of the second mobile 60.
• the second guide means 64 or the first guide means 65 preferably comprise stop means 83, 84, for limiting the relative stroke between the second guide means 64 and the first guide means 65, to the value of the race carried out by the second mobile 60 between its rest position and the actuating position in which it changes the position of the indicator 20.
• these stops 83 and 84 are the ends of the light 82 which moves relative to the ankle 81 preferably except for position change of the first control means 30, as visible in FIG. 3, and where the pin 81 is in an intermediate position between the stops 83 and 84, the pin 81 is, in all stable position of the second mobile 60, bearing on one or the other of the stops 83, as visible in Figures 5, 6, and 7, or 84, as visible in Figure 4.
• Complementary drive means 66 impart a pulse to drive means 22, each action on second control means 40, when the first control means 30 is in the required position to allow movement thereof.
• These complementary drive means 66 advantageously comprise at least one tooth 660, which can cooperate with a toothed wheel, a sector toothed, a rack, or a pawl constituting the drive means 22 of the indicator 20.
• the first mobile 50 is a pull-rod 54, which is provided with a pin 55 constituting a first bearing surface 53 arranged for cooperate with the second mobile 60.
• This pull tab 54 is pivotally driven about a pivot 56 by the first control means 30, this pivot 56 being arranged to be fixed directly or indirectly on the plate 10.
• the second mobile 60 is a flip-flop 68, which comprises a control support surface 69, which is arranged to be driven by the support of the second control means 40.
• the latch 54 is pivoted in the armed position 52.
• the ankle 55 of the latch 54 no longer hinders the second bearing surface 63 of the rocker 68, and allows the movement thereof, under the return action of the spring 72, on the bearing surface 71.
• the peg 81 bears on the abutment 83 at the other end of the slot 82, on the side of the spring 72.
• the invention also relates to such a watch movement 100 or such a timepiece 1000, comprising, mounted directly or indirectly on the plate 10, at least one such rapid correction mechanism 1. It is understood that the same movement 100, or the same timepiece 1000, may comprise several fast correction mechanisms 1, each intended to correct or adjust a different indicator 20.
• the pin 81 and the pivot 56 of the mechanism 1 are fixed, either directly to the plate 10 of the movement 100 or the workpiece 1000, or, preferably, on an additional board itself fixed to the previous one.
• the entire corrector mechanism 1 is advantageously fixed on such an additional board.
• the first control means 30 can allow, in a position T2, a first fast correction mechanism 1 to correct a first indicator 20, for example a moon phase indicator, and, in a another position T3, a second fast correction mechanism 1 to correct a second indicator 20, for example a date.
• Elements may be common to these different fast correction mechanisms 1, for example the pull tab 54, which preferably cooperates with mechanisms located on different and parallel planes.
• the rod 33 is arranged to occupy several longitudinal control positions 32, and in each of them a mechanism 1 controls the correction of a particular indicator 20, for example the moon at T2 and the date at T3.
• the movement 100 comprises a movement or a chronograph mechanism
• the second control means 40 comprise a push button 43 for controlling a reset mechanism of the chronograph.
• the chronograph movement preferably further comprises limiting means for preventing the chronograph from being reset to zero in the event of an attempt to correct the indicator 20 while the chronograph is running, the limitation means comprising a movable finger in arc cooperation. -boutement on a spring, and allowing the correction of the indicator while prohibiting the reset of the chronograph, as readable in the patent documents EP 2 073 077 and EP 2 073 078 in the name of OMEGA SA.
• the reset is not done, but the direct flip-flop 44 acts on the flip-flop 68 and the moon is corrected.
• the pressure to be exerted is then stronger, about 30 N instead of 22 N of normal force on the pusher, because of a resisting force of about 8 N to overcome at the spring of the means limiting, which arms and disengages the reset means of the chronograph in this case.
• the indicator 20 is a moon phase indicator 21 which comprises a moon gear 22, with which the mechanism 1 cooperates, and which is held in position by a moon jumper 29 armed with a spring 29A.
• a moon-drive wheel 25 comprising a spring-loaded finger 26, drives the moon gear 22, this spring enabling said drive to be disengaged to allow correction by the mechanism 1 according to the invention.
• the indicator 20 is a date indicator 23, and the mechanism 1 cooperates with a toothed date ring 24 for its pivoting drive.
• a toothed date ring 24 is visible in Figure 3, is driven by a date drive wheel 27, and is held in position by a date jumper 28 armed by a spring 28A.
• the invention also relates to a timepiece 1000 comprising at least one such movement 100 and / or at least one such rapid correction mechanism 1.
• this timepiece 1000 is or comprises a chronograph.
• the invention makes it possible to use existing mechanisms, for example the pull rod driven by the rod and the reset mechanism of a chronograph, with the addition of a minimum number of components, which are, in addition, easy to build and edit.

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